GEORGE GALLOWAY - Dinner with Portillo Excerpt 2003

GEORGE GALLOWAY - Dinner with Portillo Excerpt 2003

George Galloway:
“I could run through the world now, tyranny by tyranny and virtually every one of them is backed by the United States. It only stays in power, because of the United States. The Pakistan example, which is the perfect crystallisation of this; a soldier called ‘The General’, called himself a president, you’ll remember that, […]

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THE WHITBREAD BOOK AWARDS 2005

THE WHITBREAD BOOK AWARDS 2005

The Whitbread is one of the longest established and esteemed book awards in the UK and celebrates some of the most enjoyable books published in the UK each year across a number of different genres.
There are six awards in total - five category awards (Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s) and, from these, one […]

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ISMAIL KADARE - Man Booker International Prize Winner 2005

ISMAIL KADARE - Man Booker International Prize Winner 2005

“Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible… The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship”
Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer of broad international reputation who has been living in France, has won the first ever Man Booker International Prize recently. He has received the prize of £60,000 and a trophy at the Award Ceremony on 27 June 2005 […]

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SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2005 - Jonathan Coe Wins Non-Fiction

SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2005 - Jonathan Coe Wins Non-Fiction

Jonathan Coe is the winner of the £30,000 BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2005 for his book Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson published by Picador.
B.S. Johnson was a brilliant working-class writer, compared to Joyce and so wedded to innovation that he cut holes in the pages of his novels. […]

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